Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1927 — Page 6

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BEN LYON AND PAULINE STARKE TO BE IN ‘DANCE MAGIC’

*Berry and Hatton to Be Seen in Comedy Roles in “Fireman, Save My Child" at the Apollo— Milton Sills to Be Seen in “Framed" at the Circle, At the Indiana starting tomorrow Ben Lyon and Pauline Starke in “Dance Magic,” a colorful screening of Manhattan’s jazz age and a Publix presentation, “The Peddler,” .staged by the great English producer, Andre Chariot. “Dance Magic” was adapted from the novel by Clarence IBuddington Kelland, which ran serially in the Ladies’ Home Journal.

It tells the story of the struggles of a girl to free herself from the prejudices of her New England home against dancing, runs away to New York and becomes a star in a musical comedy. Involved in a sensational murder, she finds refuge in the narrowness of the community she had fled, and finds there, too, the boy she loves but refused to marry, holding her career above all other interests. Several elaborate settings feature the production, notably the hunt club scene and the two beautiful numbers from one of New York’s best known revues. The viethon of the New York police in conducting a “third degree” forms a thrilling bit of the action. Among the well-known players of the legitimate stage who make their screen debut in “Dance Magic” are Isabel Elson of “The Ghost Train,” Helen Chandler from “Mr. Pim Passes By,” Harlan Knight, featured in “Lightnin’”; Francis Weldon, from one of the Shubert shows, and Francetta Maloy, a dancer from “Queen High.” Louis John Bartels, who won fame with his creation of “The Show Off” on the stage, and seen here recently in "Broadway Nights,” and Mabel Swor, beautiful young blonde, making her screen bow in “Dance Magic,” round out the cast which Victor Halperin directed. The first of the Andre Chariot Revues, called “The Peddler,” is done after the manner of the Continental ballets. It was an important section of Chariot’s recent Revue on Broadway. The coloring, costuming and lighting of this whimsical fantasy will intrigue. The dancing of the various members and ensembles far excels the usual stage offering. The company includes some twenty odd artists each chosen for his or her particular fitness. The Revue has been staged with the delicate genius that characterizes most of the work of Andre Chariot. Another impressive overture played by the Indiana Symphonic Orchestra with Stolarevsky con-

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©First Half Next Week Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford “WINNERS of the WILDERNESS’* Z.OVE, WAR AND A THOUSAND THRILLS IN A NEW AND GREATER WESTERN GEO. BUNNY COMEDY “NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT” 1 Oc —ALL SEATS—IOc

St / gam the ... _Rf code of the. “few aid. &ee now it wonts I f ESTHE RALSTON NEIL \V\ HAMILTON TEN MODERN COMMANDMENTS .uitfL El Brendel Jocelyn Lee Arthur Hoyt every woman should know—the Ten Modern Commandments. Come learn the code of the up-to-the-minute miss! The first modem commandment is “Get your man!” And how she lands him! Come learn about the other .line: Lovely Esther Ralston, more fascinating, more gorgeously arrayed than in “Fashions for Women.” RUTH NOLLER ORGANOLOGUE O’HENRY COMEDY ■ “SUITE HOMES” !

ducting. Harold Ramsay presenting Russian Reflections on the Indiana Grand Organ. The Indiana News of the World and a delightful scenic completes the program. “ELMER” AND “SAM,” ON VIEW AT APOLLO Cast as a couple of bold “smoke eaters” respectively tagged as “Elmer” and “Sam,” Wallace Beery, and Raymond Hatton are reunited as a comedy team in the latest Paramount super-fun production, “Fireman, Save My Child,” which will be presented at the Apollo next week. Edward Sutherland, the man who megaphoned < Beery and Hatton in “Behind the Front,” and “We’re in the Navy Now,” directed the new picture and has outdone his previous efforts in concocting laughable situations. The story is the work of Monte Brice and Tom Geraghty, two of America’s most proficient scenarists. Quite a lot of territory is covered in “Fireman, Save My Child.” It opens in Sweden, is transferred to a ship on the Atlantic Ocean, thence to Ellis Island, a jail, and finally to a fire house with fires, thrills and hilarity galore permeating the scenes thereafter. Elmer is a Swedish immigrant. On his arrival in this county he is taken in tow by Sam who promptly proceeds to trim him of his last cent. Then the chase begins. Quite by accident, the same consisting of a leap off a fire department training tower into a life net below, both land in the fire department, and into the most mirthful set of adventures ever conceived. In the cast are Josephine Dunn, Tom Kennedy, Joseph Girard and a host of policemen, firemen and civilians. An Imperial comedy, “Gentlemen Prefer Scotch,” the Fox News Weekly, musical divertissement by the Apollo Merry Makers and organ selections by Earl Gordon will be other features of the Apollo program. SILLS IN NEW FEATURE AT CIRCLE The attraction at the Circle beginning tomorrow will be Milton Sills in “Framed,” a powerfully dramatic story adapted from a story, “Dawn of My Tomorrow,” by George W. Sutton, Jr. The story concerns Etienne Hilaire, French army officer, who is dishonorably discharged from the French army at the close of the World War, and who, though innocent, goes into voluntary exile in Brazil. There, working as a foreman in the Brazilian diamond mines, he meets the daughter of the mine manager and falls in love with her, as she does with him. After Hilaire saves the girl’s life when they are

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both trapped in a tunnel of the mine during a mud-rush, they become engaged. Meanwhile he is attempting to find who is stealing diamonds from the mine, and is “framed” as the thief. He is sent away to the penal colony in the jungle for stealing, While the girl and her father are away. How he is vindicated after a series of dramatic events and is released ■to find love and nappiness in his beloved France, is told in this interesting story, the production of which was directed by Charles Brabin, with Natalie Kingston in the leading feminine role, and Edward Beil, Natil Barr, Charles Gerrard and E. J. Ratcliffe in the supporting cast. Paul Tremaine, the “King of Saxophonists,” with his aristocrats of modern music, is the attraction for the week on the Circle stage. Tremaine and his boys, in spite of their extreme youth, have established themselves as one of the finest traveling organizations in the country. Every member of the orchestra is an individual artist and soloist. Miguel Galvan, who is well-known to local theater-goers as a banjoist will also appear on the week’s pro-

HILTON SILLS ■———l in Ml Hill "FRAMED" For men who know women and women who think they know men! The eternal battle of might and right-—of a strong man and a weak woman. He was "framed” by a woman he loved—convicted of a crime of which he was innocent and —he hated all women. Then the crisis—he fought to save a woman’s life, he, who hated all women, and he found her—the woman he really loved. Truly an amazing romance! A Firt National Picture PAUL TREMAINE ‘'The King of the Saxophone” and his Aristocrats of Music SPECIAL RETURN ENGAGEMENT OP MIGUEL GALVAN “The Spanish Banjo Boy” “The Cinder Path” ONE OF “THE COLLEGIANS” . NEWS —CHAT —FABLE HOUSE OPENS PRICE SCHEDULE Daily .. 11 a. m. WEEK DAYS All Seats I EVE.—SUN.—HOL. Sunday. lp.rn. 1 p.m.25c| 1 6°40c | fony4QC Floor 60c

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gram, and other features of the program are the Circle News; Topics of the Day, an Aesop's Fable, and other of the “Collegians” series, featuring George Lewis and Dorothy Gulliver. ESTHER RALSTON IS FEATURED AT OHIO Esther Ralston, Paramount Star, is said to iron out a few wrinkles and kinks in the social code of today in her latest comedy, “Ten Modern Commandments,” which opens at the Ohio Theater tomorrow for a week's run. To Jack Lait, popular short story writer, goes the credit of allowing Miss Ralston to juggle convention for it was he who wrote the story. Then Dorothy Arzner,'Paramount’s only woman director, who did such a fine piece of work with the blonde star in “Fashions for Women,” finished it off with a great bit of directing. "Ten Modern Commandments” is a story of the stage and. incidentally, a story that Miss Ralston has lived before. When she was but two years of age, her mother carried h>* before the footlights and from then on her life was a continual round of travel, work and the inevitable theatrical boarding house. How she uses “The Ten Commandments” to

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No. I—Ben Lyons will have the chief role in “Dance Magic” at the Indiana all next week. No. 2—Esther Ralston and Neil Hamilton have much to do in “Ten Modern Commandments” at the Ohio a~ next week. No. 3—Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton and Josephine Dunn supply most of the laughs in “Firemen Save My Child” at the Apollo, starting Sunday. No. 4—Natalie Kingston and Milton Sills have their tender moments in “Framed” at the Circle next week. No. s—Lewis Stone in a scene from “The Notorious Lady” at the Palace the first half of next week. No. 6—Joan Crawford in a scene from “Winners of the Wilderness” at tjie Isis the first part of next week. serve her ends is said to make an amusing and striking screen story. Supporting the star is a “handpicked" cast. First in line comes Neil Hamilton of “Beau Geste" fame who has the leading masculine role. Then there is Jocelyn Lee as the star of the “Revels,” Arthur Hoyt as the theatrical producer, Romaine Fielding. Rose Burdick and Maud Truax as the old troupers

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and Roscoe Karns. the funny stage manager. “Suite ’Homes” is the title of the O. Henry comedy that will be shown while the picture program will be completed by a Pathe news reel. Miss Ruth Noller, who ha. , w been attracting many by her organ®fferings at the Ohio, will be heard again this week offering a number of solos and special arrangements. INDIAN WAR DRAMA AT ISIS The attraction at the Isis for the first half of next week will be "Winners of the Wilderness,” a drama of that period in American history when the French and Indians combined in warfare against the English colonies. The story is a blend of history and romance and stars Tim McCoy with Joan Crawford feaxured in the

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role of the daughter of tlft commandant at Ft. Duquesne at the time of Braddock’s defeat. The cast of characters includes George Washington as a young major of the militia in the service of the British crown. Many thrilling episodes of early days in America are depicted in the picture. "The Lure of the Night Club” starring Viola Dana in the role of a country girl who becomes a famous dancer in New York and an important figure in the gay night life of the metropolis will be presented Thursday and the rest of the week. The story by Burke Jenkins was originally published under the title "Footlights and Shadows.” It is based on the affairs of a girl who sacrifices a theatrical career for love. The cast includes Robert Ellis, Jack Dougherty. Bert Woodruff. Lydia Yeamans Titus and Robert Dudley. ,

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3T7LY 23,1927

New Stunts on View at the Parks Ballooh Stunt Man to Do His Stuff Sunday at Riverside, A double-header in the way of free attractions has been planned for the entertainment of Riverside visitors Sunday afternoon. Daredevil Huggins, the Riverside balloon stunt man, will make one of his mile-high ascensions and five parachute leaps, using his new ninety-foot balloon, and the intense interest in aerial feats at the present time is expected to bring a big crowd to watch the ex-Army balloonist shake dice with jieath. The other half to of the twin entertainment bill for the afternoon will consist of the first appearance in Indianapolis of Madam Egener and her flock of educated geese, claimed to perform many interest -g ing and amusing feats, such as! walking the tight rope, rolling globes, drilling, dancing and practically all of the feats ordinarily executed by performing dogs or monkeys. "Patsy,” the clown goose of the troupe. Is said to put over a great line of comedy, and various members of the feathered company, in costume, do many tricks that are really astonishing, when one considers the fact that geese have always heretofore been considered impossible from a training standpoint. The act is said to be highly entertaining, not only for the children, but for adults as well. Free checking, as well as free parking and admission in connection will the free vaudeville performances, has proved immensely popular with the fui< seekers who have been according Riverside the greatest patronage in its history this summer, and preparations have been made to welcome one of the largest crowds of the -eeason this week-end. Tonight will witness the final performance of the De Courseys, who have been pelasing Riverside visitors with their free act ■if plastic posing in imitation of ancient and mdoern masterpieces of sculpture. (Turn to Page 7)